Daily Dothttp://www.dailydot.com/Daily Dot Articleen-usMon, 13 Aug 2012 15:32:21 +0000Kim Dotcom teases the return of Megauploadhttp://www.dailydot.com/news/kim-dot-com-megaupload-revival/<p><img src='//cdn0.dailydot.com/cache/e6/dc/e6dc520ba6eeefc56fc748df216adf14.jpg'></p><p>
Kim Dotcom, the flamboyant founder of the shuttered web locker site Megaupload, seems to have obliquely announced the return of that site&mdash;prompted by a news article that got the story wrong.</p>
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&ldquo;It&#39;s coming. This year. Promise. Bigger. Better. Faster. 100% Safe &amp; Unstoppable,&rdquo; he <a href="https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/234802132166000642">tweeted</a> Monday morning.</p>
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Megaupload was notoriously shut down by U.S. customs officials in January, coinciding with a swarm of New Zealand police <a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/kim-dotcom-raid-video-trial/">invading Dotcom&rsquo;s home via helicopter</a> to arrest him. The site has been down since, though a High Court later <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10816121">declared</a> the raid illegal. He&rsquo;s perhaps the most prominent example of the open antagonism between intellectual property <a href="http://riaa.com/blog.php?content_selector=riaa-news-blog&amp;content_selector=riaa-news-blog&amp;blog_selector=Why-Closing-Megaupload-Matters&amp;news_month_filter=1&amp;news_year_filter=2012">lobbying</a> groups and sites that enable file sharing of copyrighted material.</p>
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Dotcom never actually mentioned what better, faster, unstoppable thing was coming, though he often tweets a desire to reinstate Megaupload. The Next Web published an <a href="http://thenextweb.com/media/2012/08/13/kim-dotcom-promises-disruptive-new-music-service-megabox-will-launch-year/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheNextWeb+%28The+Next+Web+All+Stories%29">article</a> based on the &ldquo;it&rsquo;s coming tweet.&rdquo; It inferred that he was talking about Megabox, a site Dotcom had teased before the raid. In an <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/from-rogue-to-vogue-megaupload-and-kim-dotcom-111218/">editorial</a> for TorrentFreak before the raid, Dotcom had claimed that site would &ldquo;pay artists even for free downloads,&rdquo; and that &ldquo;the Megakey business model has been tested with over a million users and it works.&rdquo;</p>
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When The Next Web tweeted the Megabox-is-coming story, Dotcom retweeted it&mdash;then, two hours later, <a href="https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/234878482495188992">tweeted</a> &ldquo;Yes... Megabox is also coming this year ;-)&rdquo; implying that his earlier tweet was referring to a different site. Presumably, that site is Megaupload.</p>
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If so, it&rsquo;s unclear how the new version will be better, or how Dotcom plans to make it &ldquo;unstoppable.&rdquo;</p>
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Admittedly, Dotcom is <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57466903-93/mpaa-kim-dotcoms-conspiracy-theories-are-bunk/">prone</a> to grandiose statements. In that editorial, for example, he wrote &ldquo;You need to understand that some labels are run by arrogant and outdated dinosaurs who have been in business for 1000 years.&rdquo;</p>
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Dotcom didn&rsquo;t immediately respond to a tweet requesting clarification.</p>
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<em>Photo via @<a href="https://twitter.com/KimDotcom">KimDotcom</a></em></p>
kcollier@dailydot.com (Kevin Collier)Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:32:21 +0000http://www.dailydot.com/news/kim-dot-com-megaupload-revival/NewsTwitterBusiness